Irish Examiner View: Diminished by our indifference - Autism and education

This society has a long and grim history of exclusion, especially around children who, for whatever reason, arrive among us by a route less travelled, sometimes with characteristics that might categorise them in a challenging way.

If mother-and-baby homes once symbolised this institutionalised differentiation then the idea that a Catholic baby who died before being baptised could not be buried on sanctified ground underlined it in the most cutting, individual way.